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The Trimates, [1] [2] sometimes called Leakey's Angels, [3] is a name given to three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, [4] and Birutė Galdikas — chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London, [7] to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), [8] a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, [9] who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.
Gorillas in the Mist [a] is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based on a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and from articles by Harold T. P. Hayes , and Alex Shoumatoff of Vanity Fair . [ 3 ]
It’s Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday and, outside, the rain is coming down in buckets. While most people would be put off by the dismal weather, Goodall doesn’t mind. In fact, she welcomes it.
Dian Fossey (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1]
Flo (c.1919 – 1972) [13] was the matriarch of the F-family, so named because she and all her matrilineal descendants were given names beginning with the letter "F". In 1962, Flo was one of the first chimpanzees to approach Goodall's camp, along with her infant daughter Fifi.
The world's most famous living naturalist shares her reasons for feeling optimistic. The post Why Jane Goodall Has Hope—Even During Trying Times appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Jane Goodall is a world-renowned primatologist. In the past few days, a video clip from 2014 has been widely shared online.It shows an incredible moment between Jane and a chimpanzee named Wounda.